Ableism in academic knowledge production

The article takes up feminist disability scholars’ request for an integration of disability (theory) into women’s and gender studies and intends to take stock of the status and development of this integration. By means of qualitative content analysis, excerpts of German and US handbooks of gender re...

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Main Author: Natascha Compes
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Verlag Barbara Budrich 2021-07-01
Series:Gender
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3224/gender.v13i2.09
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description The article takes up feminist disability scholars’ request for an integration of disability (theory) into women’s and gender studies and intends to take stock of the status and development of this integration. By means of qualitative content analysis, excerpts of German and US handbooks of gender research are examined for their degree of integrating disability (theory) and for inherent ableism. Considering the scholars’ requests of full integration and a subsequent transformation of gender research the sample shows only minor signs of change and the request must be upheld.
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spelling doaj.art-f52349fe8fd64b4c963ab9ab78fc63cb2023-12-03T09:33:46ZdeuVerlag Barbara BudrichGender1868-72452196-44672021-07-01132-202112614110.3224/gender.v13i2.09Ableism in academic knowledge productionNatascha Compes0University of BonnThe article takes up feminist disability scholars’ request for an integration of disability (theory) into women’s and gender studies and intends to take stock of the status and development of this integration. By means of qualitative content analysis, excerpts of German and US handbooks of gender research are examined for their degree of integrating disability (theory) and for inherent ableism. Considering the scholars’ requests of full integration and a subsequent transformation of gender research the sample shows only minor signs of change and the request must be upheld.https://doi.org/10.3224/gender.v13i2.09ableismdisabilityepistemologyfeminist disability studiesgender researchknowledge production
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Ableism in academic knowledge production
Gender
ableism
disability
epistemology
feminist disability studies
gender research
knowledge production
title Ableism in academic knowledge production
title_full Ableism in academic knowledge production
title_fullStr Ableism in academic knowledge production
title_full_unstemmed Ableism in academic knowledge production
title_short Ableism in academic knowledge production
title_sort ableism in academic knowledge production
topic ableism
disability
epistemology
feminist disability studies
gender research
knowledge production
url https://doi.org/10.3224/gender.v13i2.09
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